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‘Gay bowel syndrome’
- Source :
- Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 27:84-89
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014.
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Abstract
- This article aims to review the term 'gay bowel syndrome', including the recent research looking at increased rates of bowel infections in men who have sex with men (MSM), particularly in light of the recent Shigella outbreaks in MSM in London and New York, and considers whether 'gay bowel syndrome' is a syndrome that really exists and is worthy of further research and specific treatment, or whether the term continues to be obsolete and not useful.Little or no recent research exists around the concept of a specific syndrome affecting the bowels of MSM. Rather, there seems to be a clustering of diseases in certain high-risk groups, especially those in urban areas with multiple sexual partners, recreational drug use, and possible concomitant HIV infection.All healthcare practitioners (including non-sexual health/HIV specialists) need to consider careful and thorough history taking (including sexual history) to identify those at risk.
- Subjects :
- Male
Microbiology (medical)
Anus Diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Gastrointestinal Diseases
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
MEDLINE
virus diseases
Syndrome
Men who have sex with men
Rectal Diseases
Infectious Diseases
immune system diseases
Gay bowel syndrome
Humans
Medicine
Homosexuality
Homosexuality, Male
business
Psychiatry
reproductive and urinary physiology
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09517375
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e1e38a2068d792093dc7fd3a468ddbfd